February 13, 2019 Refugees
A big Search and Rescue operation is underway in the sea area North-East of the island of Lesvos after a 15-year-old girl went missing following the capsize of a boat carrying migrants from Turkey to Greece. Despite the bad weather conditions with powerful winds, the boat left the Turkish coast …
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January 16, 2019
FEATURED, Social
Maritsa Mavropoulou does not live on the island of Lesvos anymore. One of the three grannies, who became symbol of the Greek compassion and kindness with refugees, passed away at the age of 89. It was October 2015, when the picture of the three elderly Greek women feeding a refugee …
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October 10, 2018
FEATURED, Social
“The Hero of Aegean”, Hellenic Coast Guard officer, Captain Kyriakos Papadopoulos, who rescued more than 5,000 people at the peak of Migration Crisis passed away at the age of 44. He suffered a heart attack on Tuesday night. At the peak of the Migration Crisis 2015-2016, the captain of Greek …
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September 21, 2018
Politics, Refugees
The first one hundred asylum-seekers from Moria Camp on the island of Lesvos left for Kavala on board of a ship early Friday morning. They are heading to a new camp in Volvi area near Thessaloniki in Northern Greece. The new camp has a capacity for 1,400 people. The group …
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September 18, 2018
Greece, Politics
After repeated appeals for asylum-seekers relocation from overcrowded Moria camp in the island of Lesvos, the European Commission reportedly plans to finally take take action. A total of 3,000 people are to be relocated to the Greek mainland. An EU source told New Europe that “the European Commission, having repeatedly alerted …
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September 17, 2018
Politics, Refugees
Ten boats carrying a total of 615 people of various nationalities arrived on the island of Lesvos over the weekend, that is from Friday Sep14 until Sunday , Sept 16th 2018. It is the largest number of arrivals in recent years and the largest in 2018, Athens News Agency notes …
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September 6, 2018
Social
A 9-year-old Greek girl was verbally attacked by four men in the area of Gera on the island of Lesvos for she was wearing a headscarf. Together with her mother , the girl was visiting the Church of Agios Panteleimonas in the village Perama in Gera. At the point of …
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September 3, 2018
Politics, Refugees
Unknown perpetrators on the island of Lesvos have completely destroyed the memorial dedicated to the refugees who have lost their lives in the Aegean Sea. They have even removed the base of the memorial made of concrete. picture on Sept 3 2018 Locals have reported that they saw plastic parts …
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August 31, 2018
Refugees
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency is urging the Government of Greece to address the situation in Aegean Sea Reception and Identification Centres (RICs), commonly known as ‘hotspots’. In a briefing a the Palais des Nations in Geneva on Friday, UNHCR spokesperson Charlie Yaxley said among others that the refugee centers …
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August 30, 2018
Refugees
Celebrated Syrian refugee, competitive swimmer and Youth Good Will Ambassador Sara Mardini is among the three arrested by Greek police over alleged migrants trafficking by NGO operating on the island of Lesvos. Sara Mardini and Irish national Sean Binder are two of the three NGO members Greek authorities arrested beginning …
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August 28, 2018
Economy
From 4 0′ clock in the morning until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, locals and tourists on the island of Skopelos remained without electricity. A heavy rainstorm had reportedly damages the power supply system. Extensive lightning had damaged transmitters and columns with the effect of a total black-out on the island …
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August 28, 2018
Refugees
Greek authorities have struck a blow to a NGO suspected to have been involved in facilitating the illegal arrivals of refugees and migrants to the islands of Lesvos and Samos. The NGO was mainly operating on the island of Lesvos and the hot spot of Moria. Investigation that has lasted …
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August 22, 2018
Greece, Politics
Three policemen and one army officer are among the far-right group that has launched a coordinated online attack against journalist Stratis Balaskas who covers Lesvos for Greece’s state news agency ANA-MPA and news website lesvosnews.net. Two of the policemen has been detained. Balaskas came under coordinated online and verbal threats …
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July 16, 2018
Refugees
A court on the island of Lesvos remanded custody to the 78-year-old farmer who shot and wounded a teenager refugee from Syria last week. Together with his family the 16-year-old asylum seeker had sought refuge in the farmer’s land plot to escape violence in the Moria hot spot nearby. The …
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July 10, 2018
Refugees
A 16-year-old Syrian asylum seeker is hospitalized in the hospital of Mytiline with injuries in the head and the feet. The teenager was shot by a local farmer of the Moria village around 6 o’ clock Tuesday afternoon. The incident took place in a land plot north of the Moria …
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July 10, 2018
Greece, Politics
Migration Minister, Dimitris Vitsas, dismissed dress reports that new hot spots will be established on the islands or that asylum seekers returns from Germany will be place on the five islands. In a letter to the mayors of the islands that have received the majority of refugees and migrants, that …
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June 15, 2018
Tourism
An organized beach on the island of Lesvos has introduced new practices that stun not only swimmers but also local media. Tsamakia Beach requests from visitors to show their passport at the entrance if they are from countries outside the Schengen zone. With a notice posted at the entrance, visitors …
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May 30, 2018
Politics, Refugees
Hundreds of Kurdish asylum seekers left the Moria camp on the island of Lesvos after violence broke out last Friday. Solidarity groups and NGOs set up makeshift camps for the people in need of food, water and shelter, an action that drew the anger of local authorities that turned to …
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May 7, 2018
Politics, Refugees
Three Spanish firefighters and two Danes, all members of non-governmental organizations, stand trial on the island of Lesvos on Monday. Greek authorities accuse them of smuggling refugees into the island of Eastern Aegean Sea and into the European Union in January 2016. The accused say they were only trying to …
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May 4, 2018
Turkey-GR
Turkish cargo ship KARMATE rammed Greek gunboat “Armatolos” despite warnings it was on collision course. The incident took place at 4 o’ clock Friday morning South-East off Lesvos within Greek territorial waters. The Turkish-flagged ship had deviated form its original course and fled into Turkish territorial waters. The gunboat was …
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